Conceptual design of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

被引：230

作者：

Armengaud, E. ^{[1
]}

Avignone, F. T. ^{[2
]}

Betz, M. ^{[3
]}

Brax, P. ^{[4
]}

Brun, P. ^{[1
]}

Cantatore, G. ^{[5
,6
]}

Carmona, J. M. ^{[7
]}

Carosi, G. P. ^{[8
]}

Caspers, F. ^{[3
]}

Caspi, S. ^{[9
]}

Cetin, S. A. ^{[10
]}

Chelouche, D. ^{[11
]}

Christensen, F. E. ^{[12
]}

Dael, A. ^{[1
]}

Dafni, T. ^{[7
]}

Davenport, M. ^{[3
]}

Derbin, A. V. ^{[13
]}

Desch, K. ^{[14
]}

Diago, A. ^{[7
]}

Doebrich, B. ^{[15
]}

Dratchnev, I. ^{[13
]}

Dudarev, A. ^{[3
]}

Eleftheriadis, C. ^{[16
]}

Fanourakis, G. ^{[17
]}

Ferrer-Ribas, E. ^{[1
]}

Galan, J. ^{[1
]}

Garcia, J. A. ^{[7
]}

Garza, J. G. ^{[7
]}

Geralis, T. ^{[17
]}

Gimeno, B. ^{[18
]}

Giomataris, I. ^{[1
]}

Gninenko, S. ^{[19
]}

Gomez, H. ^{[7
]}

Gonzalez-Diaz, D. ^{[7
]}

Guendelman, E. ^{[20
]}

Hailey, C. J. ^{[21
]}

Hiramatsu, T. ^{[22
]}

Hoffmann, D. H. H. ^{[23
]}

Horns, D. ^{[24
]}

Iguaz, F. J. ^{[7
]}

Irastorza, I. G. ^{[7
]}

Isern, J. ^{[25
]}

Imai, K. ^{[26
]}

Jakobsen, A. C. ^{[12
]}

Jaeckel, J. ^{[27
]}

Jakovcic, K. ^{[28
]}

Kaminski, J. ^{[14
]}

Kawasaki, M. ^{[29
]}

Karuza, M. ^{[30
]}

Krcmar, M. ^{[28
]}

机构：

[1] CEA Irfu, Ctr Saclay, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France

[2] Univ S Carolina, Dept Phys, Columbia, SC 29208 USA

[3] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

[4] Ctr Etud Saclay CEA Saclay, IPHT, Gif Sur Yvette, France

[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, Trieste, Italy

[6] Univ Trieste, Trieste, Italy

[7] Univ Zaragoza, Lab Fis Nucl & Altas Energias, Zaragoza, Spain

[8] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA USA

[9] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA USA

[10] Dogus Univ, Istanbul, Turkey

[11] Univ Haifa, Dept Phys, IL-31905 Haifa, Israel

[12] Tech Univ Denmark, DTU Space, Lyngby, Denmark

[13] St Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia

[14] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, Bonn, Germany

[15] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany

[16] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

[17] Demokritos Natl Ctr Sci Res, GR-15310 Athens, Greece

[18] Univ Valencia, Inst Ciencias Mat, Valencia, Spain

[19] Russian Acad Sci, INR, Moscow, Russia

[20] Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Dept Phys, IL-84105 Beer Sheva, Israel

[21] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA

[22] Kyoto Univ, Yukawa Inst Theoret Phys, Kyoto 606, Japan

[23] Tech Univ Darmstadt, IKP, Darmstadt, Germany

[24] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

[25] Inst Ciencies Espai CSIC IEEC, Fac Ciencies, Bellaterra, Spain

[26] Japan Atom Energy Agcy, Adv Sci Res Ctr, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan

[27] Heidelberg Univ, Inst Theoret Phys, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

[28] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia

[29] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Tokyo, Japan

[30] Univ Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

[31] Kyoto Univ, Res Ctr Low Temp & Mat Sci, Kyoto 6068502, Japan

[32] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany

[33] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Tokyo 152, Japan

[34] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[35] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[36] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Nucl Engn, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[37] Univ Cape Town, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa

[38] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[39] Univ Patras, Dept Phys, GR-26110 Patras, Greece

来源：

JOURNAL OF INSTRUMENTATION | 2014年 / 9卷

基金：

欧洲研究理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会;

关键词：

Dark Matter detectors (WIMPs; axions; etc.); Large detector systems for particle and astroparticle physics; X-ray detectors; Micropattern gaseous detectors (MSGC; GEM; THGEM; RETHGEM; MHSP; MICROPIC; MICROMEGAS; In Grid; etc); X-RAY TELESCOPE; SOLAR AXIONS; COHERENT CONVERSION; CP CONSERVATION; MAGNETIC-FIELD; DIRECT SEARCH; MICROMEGAS; LIGHT; DETECTOR; READOUT;

D O I：

10.1088/1748-0221/9/05/T05002

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) will be a forth generation axion helioscope. As its primary physics goal, TAX will look for axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) originating in the Sun via the Primakoff conversion of the solar plasma photons. In terms of signalto-noise ratio, TAX will be about 4-5 orders of magnitude more sensitive than CAST, currently the most powerful axion helioscope, reaching sensitivity to axion-photon couplings down to a few x 10-12 GeV-1 and thus probing a large fraction of the currently unexplored axion and ALP parameter space. TAX will also be sensitive to solar axions produced by mechanisms mediated by the axion-electron coupling ga, with sensitivity for the first time to values of ga, not previously excluded by astrophysics. With several other possible physics cases, TAX has the potential to serve as a multi-purpose facility for generic axion and ALP research in the next decade. In this paper we present the conceptual design of IAXO, which follows the layout of an enhanced axion helioscope, based on a purpose-built 20 m-long 8-coils toroidal superconducting magnet. All the eight 60cm-diameter magnet bores are equipped with focusing x-ray optics, able to focus the signal photons into similar to 0.2 cm(2) spots that are imaged by ultra-low-background Micromegas x-ray detectors. The magnet is built into a structure with elevation and azimuth drives that will allow for solar tracking for similar to 12 h each day.

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